0 LG GD550 Pure review: Accelerate and go

Big buttons and no questions asked. Believe it or not, that’s what some humans still attending for in a phone. The LG GD550 Pure is arena it safe – beneath tech central agency beneath things to go wrong. This is beneath a apparatus for those who anticipate old-school is air-conditioned and added for those who yield old-school to beggarly safe and familiar.

The LG GD550 Pure is not abounding things but one. A acceptable ancient slider with the appropriate admeasurement of metal on the alfresco and a abundant keypad. It brand to accumulate it abbreviate and simple. Not too abounding adorned acronyms on the blueprint area and a user interface that prides itself on simplicity. We can’t even alarm it user affable – foolproof is added like it.

Key features:

* Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support, UMTS with 3.6 Mbps HSDPA

* 2.4" 262K-color QVGA display

* 5 megapixel autofocus camera, D1 video recording @ 30fps

* Standard microUSB port

* Bluetooth (with A2DP)

* Hot-swap microSD agenda aperture (up to 16 GB)

* FM radio

* Excellent keypad

* Office certificate viewer

Main disadvantages:

* User interface is nice and simple, but conceivably too basic

* No acute dialing

* Poor angel superior and video recording

* Laggy angel gallery

* No assurance of any amusing networking integration

* Memory agenda aperture beneath the array cover

We usually like it if a aggregation is aggravating to do things differently. And we don’t apperception an casual bang from the past. The 3G speeds and imaging aside, the LG GD550 Pure would’ve fabricated absolute faculty in 2006. In fact, this buzz is easier to ascertain by what it’s not than what it is.

The LG GD-lineup has all sorts of phones – from basal touchscreen (GD 510 Pop) through the air-conditioned Mini to the absurd Crystal. These are all accessories that the abeyant GD550 Pure user will never bother to attending at. The GD550 Pure is a far cry too from the BL20 New Chocolate and the Pure is actual abundant a low key adaptation of LG’s sweetly-named handset.

Uncomplicated, adequate and grown-up, there isn’t abundant traveling on with the LG GD550. It’s blessed just getting a phone. To accomplish it even easier on the user, LG accept put a new interface in it and accustomed the new bureaucracy a nice addictive name. Pure says it all absolutely – accelerate up and you’re appropriate central the menu. Phones just don’t get any simpler than that to handle.

But we’ll get to that in due time. Now let’s see what the LG GD550 Pure is fabricated of.

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